Octavio Paz Quotes
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
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We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
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Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
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‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
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I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.
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Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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I eat the way I do because I really enjoy it but also because it's the only thing I've found that helps me manage the illness I had, and that plays a big part in it.
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'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987
